William Shakespeare Quotes
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!
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Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.
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Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves.
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Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.
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Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
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All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.
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Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.
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Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!
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Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream
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Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
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Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.
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The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.
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So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still.
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I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.
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April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
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I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.
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But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm Is often laudable, to do good sometime Accounted dangerous folly.
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Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.
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All difficulties are easy when they are known.
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It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad.
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Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference, as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which, when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile.
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Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
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Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.